” The institution has failed, and its death throes aren’t pretty. “
If you’re referring to the media, can’t happen soon enough.
Yeh, I am, and I sense a real paradigm shift when it all comes tumbling down on them. The infrastructure for something else is already in place - we're communicating to one another on it now - and it seems to me that all that will be left to them is the cult of celebrity, which is a hollow shell and not real power at all. That may suffice for a time, but the signs are there, cable cutting and the like, that the assumed authority may be taken back with an abruptness that will shock.
They are, and have been, the conduit through which the ruling classes, and yes, they are real, communicate to those they wish to manipulate. What is likely to change is the conduit. It may, after the pattern of Google and Facebook and Twitter, be quite as corrupt as what went before. That may be the next battleground for freedom. And here we all are.